The 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans did not look as though it would be a walkover for Phil Hill,...
Parnelli Jones “Lofty” England 2 Thirteen year-old Alessandro Zanardi, who will later become a two-time CART Champ Car champion, drives...
The under 2-liter Grand Touring (GT) cars have always had a place to compete within the ever-changing regulations of international motorsports; the World Sports Car Championship from 1953–1961, the Speedworld Challenge from 1962–1963, the International Championship of Makes from 1964–1971 and the World Championship of Makes from 1972–1981. This included...
It has been 50 years since Graham Hill won the Formula One World Championship for BRM, and this achievement was...
Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI May 19–20, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Under warm and sunny skies at the 3rd annual Sonoma Historic Motorsports Festival at Sears Point Raceway in Sonoma, California, more than 340 historic cars took the checkered flag in 15 groups of racing. Cars ranging from a 1911 National to a collection of Can-Am cars from the 1960s and...
Carroll Shelby has just driven Alan Guiberson’s Ferrari 375MM to victory in the Sports Car Races at Torrey Pines, California,...
Monte Carlo Circuit, Monaco May 11–13, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Nelson Piquet once memorably described driving a Grand Prix car around Monaco as akin to trying to ride a bicycle around your bedroom and certainly, while it is not too difficult to drive a racing car around the circuit, it becomes a totally different animal when it comes to wringing...
Fuji Speedway, Oyama, Japan April 15, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About 6,000+...
Longtime SCCA stalwart Andy Porterfield died in mid-April at the age of 80 from complications following heart valve surgery. Beyond...
Like many designers I like to push the envelope, so, when answering the question about my consideration of my greatest racecar I’d like to do the same—I’d like to choose a land speed record car. In my view, probably the most technically advanced car for its time was the Bluebird-Proteus...
Legendary team owner Frank Arciero has died from the aftereffects of an aneurysm. Arciero was a 14-year-old Italian immigrant when...
This is the official site of the Shelby American Collection in Boulder, Colorado, which houses many examples of significant Shelby Cobras and various other cars built and campaigned by Shelby American. Clicking on any one of a list of destinations arranged across the top of the home page will take...
Les Leston was born in 1920 named Alfred Lazarus Fingleston. He worked in the motor accessory business and was an...
Brian Redman has accepted the position of Grand Marshal for the 2nd Annual Bahamas Speed Week Revival, scheduled for this...
Tall Texan Tales Dear Editor, Your excellent June issue included Pete Lyons’ review of the happenings while Jim Hall was honored during the RRDC dinner at Long Beach. One of Jim’s recollections was how he used the engine of his Chevy pickup truck when the Chevy V8 in his Lister conked out in the prelim at...
With the recent passing of automotive icon Carroll Shelby, it is easy to look at his amazing life through the...
As you will have read in last month’s Vintage Racecar news, the automotive world lost one of its last remaining...
There I was, on Los Angeles’ Imperial Highway, helplessly hanging on in the passenger seat. No grab bar, no seatbelt, just my feet burrowing into the floorboards. The scent of tires melting away under the strain of a 70 mph four-wheel drift was intoxicating, and the fact that the combined...
Di Spires Photo: Mike Jiggle For me, motor racing became like a drug—the more I attended Grand Prix events in...
Pete Lyons You’d need a piece of paper the size of Texas to write down all that should be said...
Carrera Panamericana 1950–1954 As covered several months ago in our “Lost McAfee Tapes” feature, the running of the Carrera Panamericana in the early ’50s was a wild and eclectic amalgamation of circus and international motor race. World-class drivers like Phil Hill, John Fitch, Louis Chiron and Karl Kling raced exotic...
German racer Paul Pietsch, the last surviving driver of the prewar Silver Arrows era and the oldest living Grand Prix...
Mallala Motorsports Park, South Australia April 8, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article (& About...
Carroll ShelbyPhoto: Jim Williams In observance of Carroll Shelby’s recent passing, VR is presenting an edited combination of the interviews...
Philip Island Grand Prix Circuit, Victoria, Australia March 9–10, 2012 Become a Member & Get Ad-Free Access To This Article...
Sebring International Raceway has announced that Vintage Speed LLC will serve as the event manager for the Sebring Historics scheduled for October 25–28, 2012. In conjunction with the 60th anniversary celebration of the Sebring 12-hour classic, the track is creating an annual event to honor the historic cars that have...